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McDonald's has acquired speech recognition company Apprente. This is reported by the American fast food giant, which will use the technology for taking orders in the McDrive. It is not yet known when the technology will be rolled…

TikTok is owned by Beijing-based Bytedance and is especially popular with the Z generation. They use the social media platform to create and share fun, addictive 15-second videos. TikTok has been downloaded more than 104 million times in…

Facebook is busy developing its own voice assistant, according to a new rumor. It's unknown how the social network plans to use the technology, but it's likely to work on Facebook's video calling device Portal anyway.The voice assistant…

Larry Roberts, one of the main developers of internet precursor Arpanet, has died at the age of 81. Roberts developed Arpanet and encouraged others to build applications for it, such as email. Roberts in 2017 Roberts died on Boxing Day of…

The social network Gab.com went offline after domain provider GoDaddy gave the company 24 hours to find shelter elsewhere. More companies have banned Gab after the Pittsburgh gunman was found to be spreading hateful messages via the…

They came in on roller skates. The contrast with competitors such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Apple could not have been greater. Where many competitors gave slick and well-prepared presentations, Google founders Larry Page and…

Surprise! Nintendo continues on the same path and comes after and Classic Mini NES and SNES also with a tiny Nintendo 64 that is full of classics of that period. A user on Twitter leaked a number of photos from the device and that looks…

Airbnb is getting more and more business guests. The number of sleepers who arranged a room for a business trip via Airbnb tripled in the past year, according to the company blog post . There are now more than 700,000 companies that arrange…

In Silicon Valley the region where Google, LinkedIn and Facebook have their headquarters, there is a lot of food to be found. On the campuses, food is even free in some cafeterias. The free sushi, pizzas and sandwiches are increasingly…

We already knew it. We had known it for a long time, but we did not want to see it. For a BBC documentary, however, was investigated how tech giants like Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter keep their users tethered to their devices. In…